Problems playing audio CD's and DVD's

[impossiblescissors]

Hello,

I'm test-driving PC-BSD 9 RC2 (LXDE) and installed VLC, UMPlayer and Xine from AppCafe. The players work fine with media files on my PC, but I'm having big problems trying to get them to read directly from my DVD drive. After reading the VLC forums I've tried running chmod on /dev/cdrom and on /dev/cd1 and /dev/cd0 but it still gives me errors or just refuses to play when I try to select my CD to play.

Right now I have two DVD burners on my system--one PATA, one SATA. PATA is the drive I'm trying to use to play CD's (it's an old motherboard that can't boot from the SATA DVD burner.) The PATA drive shows up as /dev/cd1 in PCManFM. VLC looks like it wants to call it /dev/acd0 or /dev/acd1.

Another thing I considered is whether I'm missing libdvdcss. Where would I be able to look into this?

Thanks in advance.

[wakajawaqa]

This looks like an old post, but to find out if you have libdvdcss installed run "pkg_info | grep libdvdcss" in a terminal. It should come with a standard PCBSD installation.

Is everything working with the final release?

I can't play CD's or DVD's with vlc mplayer xmms or cdcontrol, etc.

I can hear the drive spin the disc, and see the contents via nautilus (I'm using XFCE on PCBSD 9.0), but the media won't play.

[martinsson]

Just wanted to add to this one, I have the same issue, I can copy the contents of the audio cd to a folder and open the items from there, but i can not open disc directly from vlc.

pkg_info | grep libdvdcss :
libdvdcss-1.2.10_1 Portable abstraction library for DVD decryption

I get this error message in vlc :
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'cdda:///dev/acd0'. Check the log for details.

So there it is.

I'm otherweise very happy with this excellent OS, PC-BSD 9 64bit, the final release, using XFCE as DE on a ASrock 330HT mini computer.

My guess is that the location specified in vlc is not correct (but the again I'm only a amateur user)

Any help on how (or if?) this can be resolved would be great

[kmoore134]

One problem is that /dev/acd0 doesn't exist anymore, can you change that
to /dev/cd0?

[wakajawaqa]

Pointing VLC to /dev/cd0 does not work. On the GUI, it cycles through all the track names very quickly but doesn't play anything. When run from a terminal, it gives a huge amount of output, all of it very similar. This is a sample:

[0x802416970] cdda access error: Could not set block size
[0x802416970] cdda access error: cannot read sector 11750

There is nothing wrong with the drive. This machine dual boots Arch Linux and VLC works fine with the same discs (audio CDs and DVDs) from the Linux side.

Is there any other information I can provide that would be of use?

The rest of the OS is working beautifully, by the way. I love the new control panel!

[martinsson]

same here so +1 on that I'm afraid, I'll try google